Friday, August 10, 2012

Aberdeen’s New Stirling 277 Is VMware-Ready
To Interoperate Seamlessly With Virtual Infrastructures

Reputations aren’t just handed out.
They’re earned over time by gaining the trust of customers and partners through
consistent results, leading performance, and long-lasting reliability.

Aberdeen has earned its well-deserved reputation
within the industry as a manufacturer of affordable, durable, highly scalable,
award-winning general purpose and storage servers by developing such trust. For
20-plus years, Santa Fe Springs, Calif.,-based Aberdeen has been building servers
tailor-made to customers’ exact requirements and specifications in order to
meet their present and future needs. Over that time, Aberdeen has also met and
surpassed the criteria set down by its partners, including VMware.

Solidified Reputation

The new Aberdeen Stirling 277, a 2U VMware-Ready
server powered by the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 series CPUs and built on the
Intel Romley platform, is but one of countless examples of how Aberdeen has solidified
its reputation.

The Stirling 277’s VMware-Ready designation
means the server can interoperate seamlessly with a virtual infrastructure and that
it has met VMware integration and interoperability standards, says Mike McArthur,
an engineer at Aberdeen. “Each VMware-Ready product and solution category
requires successful completion of specific integration and interoperability
testing,” he says. Beyond being VMware-Ready, the Stirling 277 is also certified
for vSphere Fault Tolerance, meaning the potential of data loss due to
disruption is eliminated.

“Customers can rely on VMware-Ready
products and solutions to be reliably interoperable with a vSphere environment
and to deliver unique features with significant value,” McArthur says. Further,
he says, the designation signifies “VMware’s highest level of endorsement for
products and solutions created by established partners.”

Overall, the Stirling 277’s hardware components
make it well-suited for businesses running 10 to 20 virtual machines on a
single ESXi server, McArthur says. The power and efficiency performance that the
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 series CPUs provide means the Stirling 277 is also
well-suited for cloud computing tasks, he says. Aberdeen offers the Intel® Xeon®
Processor E5-2600 series in a dual-socket configuration. Built on Intel’s 32nm
manufacturing technology, the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 helps companies
meet the demands of developing efficient, secure, and high-performing data
center infrastructure.

Better Hardware, Better Abilities

Among the Stirling 277’s standout
features, says Niso Levitas, manager of research and development at Aberdeen, is
support to configure more memory (up to 512GB), something that’s “important for
virtualization,” he says. “Usually the bottleneck on VMware servers is the
memory, not CPU,” he says. “You can add many more virtual machines with
increased memory capacity.”

Aberdeen makes acquiring a virtualization
platform “simple and affordable,” as well as free of “fancy terminology,”
Levitas says, by offering two VMware virtualization starter kits. Both kits
include two certified Stirling 277 servers providing shared storage and
licensing abilities and hardware redundancy and VMware’s High Availability
features. An Essentials Plus kit includes four CPUs and 128GB RAM and support for
up to six CPUs and 192GB RAM. A Standard Acceleration kit includes four CPUs
and 128GB RAM and support for up to eight CPUs and 256GB RAM.

Other notable features of the Stirling277 include dual onboard RJ45 10GbE ports and support for PCI-E 3.0. The 10GbE
ports are backward-compatible with 1GbE networks and infrastructure, enabling customers
to “utilize their existing network and switches and benefit from 10GbE when
they are ready,” Levitas says. Seven available PCI-E 3.0 slots are built in,
providing ample slots to add fiber storage ports, 10GbE, or iSCSI ports,
Levitas says. The Stirling 277 can also utilize SAN storage, Levitas says, but supports
up to 32TB storage in the server itself “for smaller setups or to utilize
Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) features introduced with VMware Vsphere 5.0.”

Guaranteed Quality

As with every barebones and customized general-purpose
and storage server Aberdeen sells in form factors covering 1U to 8U, the
Stirling 277 ships with Aberdeen’s industry-leading five-year warranty that guarantees
it to be free of material defects during the warranty’s duration and free of
workmanship defects during the server’s lifetime.

Before shipping, every Stirling 277
server is put through a comprehensive burn-in process, as well as a thorough
Quality Control/Quality Assurance routine. Before and after shipping, Aberdeen
has VMware-certified sales and technical staff available to help customers best
apply virtualization in their environment to cut their costs and simplify their
operations.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Since 1991, Aberdeen has been designing and manufacturing
scalable high-capacity storage solutions for companies in a wide variety of
industries. Through the years, the company has always strived to maximize the
efficiency of its products in order to provide the most storage possible to its
customers. And even while Aberdeen releases new products, it continues to make
improvements to its currently available solutions. The company made just such a
change with its already popular Stirling and AberNAS product lines by
increasing the potential storage capacity by 33%.

Support For 4TB Hard Drives

Aberdeen’s Stirling and AberNAS solutions have
always been able to provide large amounts of storage, whether it was up to
198TB in a single server or as much as 1PB (petabyte) in an array. However, the
company has now included support for Hitachi’s Nearline 24/7 4TB SATA hard disk
drives, which improves on efficiency and provides even more raw storage
capacity than ever before. In fact, you can now get as much as 16TB of storage
in a 1U model or up to 264TB in an 8U rackmount configuration.

This increase in capacity per hard drive makes
it possible to pack more available storage into each system without the need to
invest in additional servers. In addition to cutting down on equipment
expenditures, the added capacity can also help free up some much needed space
in your data center or even aid in the consolidation process. As with all
Aberdeen products, these configurations are highly customizable, so you can get
the exact amount of storage you need at exactly the right size.

Stirling Scalable Storage Servers

In addition to the newly added support for
4TB hard drives, Aberdeen’s Stirling Scalable Nearline Storage Servers are also
packed with many other helpful features for data centers. Each Stirling server
utilizes Intel’s 5520 Chipset, Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 series, and Intel
microarchitecture with Turbo Boost Technology. Aberdeen’s Stirling servers also
feature up to 192GB of DDR3 memory, a maximum bandwidth of 32GBps, and much
more. All Stirling servers are available in RAID 6, 0, 1, 5, and 10
configurations with more than 1200MBps transfers. By combining all of these
technologies into one solution, you can expect superfast processing speeds and
reliable performance.

Aberdeen also has four specific Stirling
configurations with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 onboard. The first is
the 3U X339, which supports up to 16 hard drives and up to 64TB of capacity.
The 5U X539 supports up to 24 hard drives and as much as 96TB of storage. The
two 8U models, the X889 and the X899, have space for 48 and 64 hard drives and
up to 192TB and 256TB of storage, respectively. Because these systems are
highly customizable and can be easily combined to create an array, Aberdeen
also added the option of expandable SAS2 storage up to 1PB and beyond.

AberNAS Solutions

For those in need of scalable, high-capacity
NAS solutions, Aberdeen offers its AberNAS line of products designed to work
with the specific operating system you choose. For instance, the AberNAS
LX-Series works with 64-bit Linux environments and the AberNAS X8-Series is
designed for the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 OS. Aberdeen also has a
32-bit Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 entry-level AberNAS model and other
Linux-based solutions.

For companies using Linux-based operating
systems in need of massive virtualized storage arrays, the AberNAS LX-Series
has many great features. It now supports up to 8EB (exabytes) of storage and,
with this immense level of available storage, Aberdeen has also included an
easier to use GUI for 64-bit Linux environments so it’s much easier to manage
your hard drive arrays.

Aberdeen’s AberNAS solutions are flexible in
that you can have as much as 264TB of storage in a server to as little as 2TB
in a 1U configuration. They feature support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD
and SATA 3Gbps or 6Gbps disk drives. In addition, these storage solutions are protected
with snapshot data recovery, hardware redundancy, and redundant hot-swappable
power supplies.

Customizable & Scalable Solutions

As always, Aberdeen’s tech experts are available to help you configure
the Stirling and AberNAS storage solutions to your exact specifications. The
products are designed for companies of all sizes, from a small business to the
largest enterprise. Plus, the Stirling and AberNAS solutions can grow alongside
your company, leaving enough space for you to quickly and easily scale your
maximum storage capacity.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Scalable
& Expandable Storage

Aberdeen has been providing
high-capacity, high-speed storage solutions for data centers for many years.
And from the beginning, the company has put a strong focus on the customer
experience with each one of its products. “All Aberdeen systems are fully
customizable,” says Larry Aguilar, marketing manager at Aberdeen. “Aberdeen
does not carry prebuilt systems. Each system is tailor-made based on each
customer’s requirements and specifications.”

Aberdeen’s AberSAN ZXP Expandable ZFS SAN Storage
Subsystem and AberNAS N10L Series are no different. They provide flexible and
scalable storage that is designed to grow alongside a company and provide the
high level of performance needed for many years to come.

Virtually Unlimited Storage

Perhaps the biggest selling point of Aberdeen’s AberSANZXP systems is that they have virtually unlimited storage. The AberSAN ZXP is
built as a 128-bit system and uses a ZFS file system. This combination lets you
produce unlimited snapshots for quick data restoration as well as unlimited
file sizes. For management, Aberdeen includes a Web-based GUI to help manage
and configure the hard drive array(s).

Aberdeen uses its ZFS-based file system to protect data
and support virtualization, if necessary. Because the AberSAN ZXP provides
unlimited storage, it’s capable of storing a large number of backups and system
instances in case you need to restore your system due to a large-scale
disaster. Aberdeen products use the ZFS file system to avoid silent data
corruption, so you can be sure that every save is stored correctly and will be
available when you need it. You can leverage the ZFS file system to use thin
provisioning and I/O pooling. Plus, Aberdeen’s solutions are designed to work
specifically with VMware environments as well as other virtualization
offerings.

The AberSAN ZXP is perfect for cloud environments. Not
only does it provide a large amount of storage, it is also easily expandable
from a smaller starting size up to a large-scale cloud infrastructure machine.
You can choose from a 19-inch rackmount solution with a 2U Head Unit, 3U JBODExpansion, or 4U JBOD Expansion, which provide depths of 17.7, 25.5, or 27.5
inches, respectively. Each system comes with different power supplies and
storage options and up to 192GB of DDR3 memory. The AberSAN ZXP can handle any
storage-related needs you currently have while leaving enough room for the
needs you haven’t even thought of.

Designed
For Businesses Of All Sizes

Aberdeen’s solutions are designed to work for all
companies, from the smallest businesses to the largest enterprises. That’s why
the AberNAS N10L Series of products are Linux-based servers that are available
in 2.4TB, 4TB, 8TB, and 12TB capacities and can be built to provide RAID 0, 1,
5, 6, 10, 50, and 60 environments depending on the level of storage you need.
The AberNAS N10L Series also features an expandable SAS port, so you can
connect Aberdeen XDAS (direct attached storage) units for additional storage
space when you need it. And because these solutions use an open storage
platform, they can be easily configured and reconfigured to meet any data
center’s specific needs.

The AberNAS N10L Series is also ready for virtualization
and the cloud, because each 32-bit model is VMware certified, and 64-bit
certification is pending. You can start off with any of the base models for
simpler virtualized environments and then expand your storage as you expand your
cloud-based projects.

In addition to the storage space, 6GB to 24GB of DDR3
memory, and VMware certification, Aberdeen’s AberNAS N10L Series is built to
work with some of Intel’s newest technologies, including Intel’s QuickPath
Technology and a built-in memory controller, to provide the highest level of
performance and speed.

Aberdeen
AberSAN ZXP & AberNAS N10L Series Aberdeen’s scalable storage solutions feature the Intel® Xeon® Processor and take advantage of ZFS-based file management for virtually
unlimited storage and ensure that these products will grow alongside your
company to provide the highest level of performance.

A performance boost, no matter how small, is always a good thing. A performance boost
reaching up to 80%, however, is a major step up. Aberdeen’s dual-socket x70Series Stirling Servers open the door to such a performance gain by including
the new Intel®Xeon® Processsor E5-2600 series, which is built on the
Sandy Bridge-EP core design and part of the Romley platform when paired with
the new Intel C602 (Patsburg) chipset.

Aberdeen offers the
Xeon E5-2600 processors in dual-socket (Dual LGA2011 Socket R) configurations
in eight base models within the x70 Series Stirling Server family in 1U
Mainstream, 1U Advanced, 2U Mainstream, 2U Advanced, and 4U Mainstream options.
The base 4U Mainstream configuration, for example, provides an AberdeenStirling 470 server with dual 2GHz Xeon E5-2650 processors, 16GB of
DDR3-1600MHz memory (up to 256GB), two 2TB Hitachi Ultrastar 7200rpm drives (up
to eight drives supported), an LSI 9261 SAS2 controller, and a SuperServer
7047R-TRF server kit. The 171-178 and 179 have redundant 80 Gold level power
efficiency certified power supplies in a 1U, while the 278 can have up to 24
2.5-inch drives. All x70 Series Stirling models can be customized with add-on
cards, backplanes, storage, and other features.

The Xeon E5-2600 series
has 17 parts supporting up to eight cores per processor and up to 768GB of
system memory (quad-channel DDR3 up to 1600MHz). The Xeon E5-2600 processors
provide up to an 80% increase in performance compared to previous Xeon
5600-series processors. They also include new Intel Integrated I/O technology
with PCI Express 3.0 support built in. Intel says the addition can triple the
rate of data flows coming in and out of the processor, reducing latency by up
to 30%. Support for Intel DDIO (Data Direct I/O) technology enables Intel
Ethernet controllers and adapters to route I/O traffic straight to processor
cache.

The processors include
support for Intel AVX (Advanced Vector Extension), technology. Also noteworthy
is the Xeon E5-2600’s ability to improve energy efficiency by more than 50% vs.
the Xeon 5600 series processors, a boon to data centers seeking to gain added
performance while reducing power consumption and operating costs. Intel says
the new age of “intelligent performance” that the Xeon E5-2600 processors are
introducing will result in best-in-class support for virtualization,
consolidation, and cloud computing.

Guaranteed Excellence

Beyond the x70 Series
Stirling Server models, Aberdeen has been producing general-purpose and storage
servers since 1991, placing a strong emphasis on providing customers
customization options and high performance offered at competitive prices. In
addition to customized servers ranging from 1U to 8U form factors, the company
also sells barebones server configurations.

Aberdeen covers every
fully configured rackmount server with a five-year-warranty that guarantees the
server to be free of material defects for five years. Aberdeen also warranties
each server to be free of workmanship defects for the server’s lifetime. Other
customer-tailored programs include an Internet-based leasing program and a
CARES (Custom Assembled Rackmount Evaluation Service) program, which provides
qualified customers with a server that’s configured to their needs that they
can use for a free 30-day assessment period with no obligations.

Aberdeen x70 Series
Stirling Servers

The x70 Series Stirling Servers feature the use of
processors from Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 series, which include numerous
features geared specifically toward boosting performance in data center
applications.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

In
most cases, it’s safe to say that the more parts something has, the more complicated it is.
This sentiment fits the world of mass storage solutions perfectly. It’s
relatively easy to locate and manage one hard drive in a single desktop
computer or even as many as eight hard drives in a larger storage platform, but
the difficulty increases to new highs when dozens or hundreds of drives are
involved. While current ZFS-based offerings allow you to alphabetize hard
drives according to unique identifiers, there is no simple or intuitive way to
know exactly where that drive is in the array.

“Adding, removing, or replacing a hard drive
typically rearranges the list,” says Yuval Bymel, R&D engineer at Aberdeen.
“These hard drive changes make it impossible to have a label on the system
showing the correct order of the drives at any given time. Under ideal
conditions, this may be an adequate solution. But when a drive fails, or if it
completely disappears from that list, there is no easy way to identify the slot
in which that drive resides.”

To help data center and IT managers overcome
this hard drive hassle, Aberdeen built its Z-Series line of scalable storage
products with its proprietary Web-based GUI that makes it easy to not only
identify the hard drive, but also pinpoint its exact location in the array.
This GUI goes above and beyond the traditional ZFS system to make hard drive
swaps or fixes quicker and easier.

Scalable Storage Products

Aberdeen’s Z-Series is a line of scalable
storage products designed to be customized to your needs. Whether you need to
store a few terabytes of data or as much as a petabyte or more, the Z-Series
platform can handle it. Aberdeen also made sure these solutions would be ready
for future use and offers 10Gb Ethernet or 8Gb Fibre connectivity to the storage
solutions as an optional add-on.

The GUI built into Aber-deen’s Z-Series line
of solutions creates an accurate graphical representation of your entire array,
letting you see the physical location of a server’s hard drives without
manually searching through the array. When you click an individual drive, the
GUI shows you its location on the server itself as well as its physical
location within the array. And the GUI will also take any changes you’ve made
into account. “You can rest assured the GUI matches the server’s hard drive
slot label and retains that order no matter which drives you use, how many you
have, or even if you have to replace a failed drive,” Bymel says.

The Z-Series GUI also lets you select which
drive you want to replace while keeping all of your hard drives in the correct
order. You can even rearrange the order at any given time or move your drives
to another enclosure. Regardless of how you choose to arrange or manage your
drives, the Z-Series GUI will keep up with you and provide the same
identification and location information based on the new configuration.

Easier To Use

Aberdeen’s addition of the Web-based GUI serves to make the
Z-Series even easier to use in the data center. The platform is scalable enough
to support a wide range of storage needs and can scale to as much as a petabyte
of storage or more because the GUI makes it easier to locate, swap out, or move
hard drives.Regardless of how large or
small your storage needs, Aberdeen can help with a solution that will relieve
your hard drive headaches.

"Aberdeen’s Z-Series line of scalable storage solutions are
built with a ZFS-based file management system as well as a helpful, Web-based
GUI that makes it easy to identify and locate specific hard drives in an array."

Monday, April 23, 2012

One of the mission statements that Aberdeen displays prominently on its Web site (www.aberdeeninc.com) is “Perfecting the science of scalability. Because one size does not fit all.” Put another way, Aberdeen has the experience, personnel, and ability to assist any company with its individual server and storage needs regardless of its size.

It’s this capability that G & G Squared Enterprises (www.gdickinson.com) discovered when it set out to replace its existing bank of aging servers and open the company to the new market of virtual data centers, says G & G CEO George Dickinson II.

Going Virtual

Originally operating as a private Web hosting provider for individuals and select companies, G & G took its offerings public in 2005. Today, Dickinson describes G & G as providing customers a “place where small businesses are encouraged to develop their Web potential through the use of Web hosting technology” and establish a Web experience to increase their Web awareness and audiences.

In early 2011, the company found itself in need of upgrading its servers. Before ultimately selecting products from Aberdeen to fill its needs, G & G conducted research that involved comparing servers and storage servers from several other well-known competitors. “When comparing all systems configured the same, Aberdeen was the lowest price,” Dickinson says. After speaking with Aberdeen and downloading all the spec sheets, the company purchased its equipment from Aberdeen in April 2011.

Suitable for small businesses on up to high-end IT environments, the 1U VMware-certified, Linux-based (64-bit, enterprise-class), and iSCSI/IP SAN ready AberNAS 160LX Series models range from 2TB to 12TB storage included.

G & G also purchased an Aberdeen Stirling 56T Mini 1U Rack, a SuperServer 6015V-MRB Mini-1U Rack Dual Xeon server based on Intel Nehalem processors and offering up to 16GB of ECC FBDIMM DDR2 memory.Dickinson says the process from unboxing to implementing the new equipment only took about an hour and a half. And the products have “exceeded the planned project,” he says, something that has enabled G & G to open itself up for new projects in coming years.

A Warranty That Entices

Beyond Aberdeen’s experience, Dickinson says, he was also enticed by the standard five-year warranty Aberdeen offers, the off-the-shelf replacement parts provided, and its designation as a VMware-certified partner—all of which are offered at a “fraction of the cost of competitors,” Dickinson says. “After doing years’ worth of researching,” he says, Aberdeen was “exactly what the company needed” to complete its virtualization project.

It was the five-year warranty, however, that “was the first thing that enticed me,” Dickinson says. Aberdeen provides the warranty with all its fully configured rackmount servers, including preconfigured Stirling servers and custom-designed servers, warranting the models from the date they’re shipped to be free of material defects and covering workmanship defects for the product’s lifetime.

In addition, Dickinson says, “The support team is great. I have not had any issues with the equipment.” And, he says, G & G is “enjoying the added space and lowered utility bills” it has experienced since its purchase.

Aberdeen AberNAS 167LX & Stirling 56T Mini 1U Rack

A customizable Linux-based, enterprise-class network-attached storage server built on an open storage platform and deployable in companies ranging from small startups to those with large IT environments. Featuring the Intel® Xeon® Processor

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Mapping out short-and long-terms goals, along with corresponding strategies, is vital to a successful server upgrade. Mark Bowker, Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst says that because server upgrades often align with new IT projects, applications, or application upgrades, it’s important that “IT focus on both the lifecycle of the application and how it aligns with the expected life of the server and account for planned and unplanned scale.” IT should also know its options. Too often, Bowker says, IT purchases server with more capacity than needed, which provides the comfort of extra headroom but also incurs additional expense. “IT should understand what the latest processor chipset is on the market and what the stated roadmap of the chip manufacturers are,” he says. “This will help avoid buying into servers that are at the end of a product lifecycle.”

According to Max Haskvitz, knowing the enterprise’s hard- ware and networking platform is the most important aspect of a server upgrade, but having redundancy in place is also “beyond important, “he says. “Network and data migration are huge issues every enterprise has to deal with; however, if done with an eye for detail, it shouldn’t cause too many headaches. “Prior to an upgrade, he says, back up data and ensure that planned changes will work with the network and applications. “In general, I always would request that the vendor perform the upgrade, “he says. “That way it stays under warranty. If anything goes wrong, you have someone liable that’s outside the company, and you will get resolution in most cases quickly.”

Prep Work

Among the upgrade preparations that Charles Jansen, technical support manager at Aberdeen (www.aberdeeninc.com), suggests is meeting with decision makers to decide if an upgrade is really worthwhile, as “it may be more time and cost-effective to purchase a new server. “Additionally, schedule down- time to complete the upgrade, determine how long the server will be down—“It can take 24 to72 hours just to build a new RAID group using 1TB/2TB/3TB drives,” Jansen says—and make sure personnel will be avail-able during that timeframe. Also ensure that vendor support will be available, and gather and review device-related documentation to limit surprises, he says.

Jansen also suggests checking the server’s warranty status and whether it can be extended; double-checking and documenting specifications for the current BIOS, firmware, drivers, and internal components; and gathering server and component serial numbers in case support is required. If upgrading the CPU or memory, he says, “be certain that the system will support the additional components. Don’t mix CPU steppings, and don’t mix memory module ranks and speeds.”

If upgrading storage, he says, check that hard drives are compatible with the existing RAID controller; document all drive models, LBA, and firmware; avoid mixing within the same RAID group; and don’t use desktop-grade hard drives in RAID groups. If upgrading a RAID controller, ensure that the new controller is compatible with existing PCI-X o rPCI-E slots. “Most controllers designed to run on PCI-EGen 2 slots will not even be recognized on a PCI-E Gen 1 slot,” he says. If adding external storage, verify that there’s room for required storage host bus adapters, that a driver for the OS is available, and that all media and storage devices work properly, and test installation media on a test system to ensure reliability.

Test Your Work

Overall, Haskvitz advises to be prepared for anything to go wrong and take steps (clone drives, network maps, have a spare server ready, etc.) to avoid downtime. “Though some downtime will likely occur, “he says, “a well-prepared team and a network with redundancy has much more risk-avoidance than upgrading a mission-critical server with no backups [or] fall backs,” he says. Post-upgrade, test for throughput, bandwidth, stability, heat, and memory issues, he says. Good vendors will do this for you, he says, but IT should generally request that a 24-to 48-hourtesting suite be done on new machines and on memory, CPU, or hard drive upgrades.

For servers that have been in production several years, Jansen suggests using manufacturer utilities to test existing memory and hard drives before upgrading. “RAID consistency checks and CHKDSK should be performed to verify volume integrity,” he says, adding that these processes can be time-consuming on large data sets.

Bowker advises referring to hardware compatibility lists to ensure that the workload planned for the server is approved for that hardware. “Depending on the application, an extensive test of the application with a real- world workload should be [performed] on the system,” he says. In some large-scale environments, this may include significant vendor participation. For less-critical projects, IT can run its standard new-install checklist, he says.

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